Spring Break
Campus tailgates top TABC citations list
Joe Zigtema
Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: News
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TCU student tailgaters may be partying too hard by Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission standards.
TCU student tailgates were the second-most cited place in Tarrant County by the TABC in 2007, TABC records show.
TABC officers have handed out 59 citations at TCU tailgates in the Brachman Hall parking lot. As a result, more TABC agents were present at recent home games for officer safety, said TABC Agent Tana Travis.
Travis has written 395 citations since 2004, third-most among TABC agents. She has written 29 citations at TCU tailgates, records show.
"The first couple of games that I worked, with the number of violations that we had, it was definite that we needed more help out there," Travis said.
Although TABC agents have written 43 percent fewer tickets in 2007 than in 2004, all citations handed out at TCU came in 2007.
Darron Turner, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs who oversees student tailgates, said he did not know why TABC agents decided to attend tailgates this year and not in years past.
"(TABC) contacted the university one time to say they were coming with more people, and then they just kept that up," Turner said.
In the spring, Turner said university officials will meet with TABC agents to discuss plans for next year's student tailgate.
"We're taking some of their concerns and trying to figure out how to deal with those in the future so that students feel like they have a good place to be, and TABC feels that it's a safer environment," Turner said.
One TCU junior political science major, 20, who asked to remain anonymous, received a minor in possession of alcohol citation from TABC at a student tailgate and said the agent who issued her ticket was not helpful.
"(It was) my first time ever getting in trouble with the cops so I was trying to ask questions and figure out what I needed to do," she said. "(The TABC agent) did not offer me any information. I wasn't doing anything to attract attention to myself, and I thought it was unnecessary to be rude about it."
TCU student tailgates were the second-most cited place in Tarrant County by the TABC in 2007, TABC records show.
TABC officers have handed out 59 citations at TCU tailgates in the Brachman Hall parking lot. As a result, more TABC agents were present at recent home games for officer safety, said TABC Agent Tana Travis.
Travis has written 395 citations since 2004, third-most among TABC agents. She has written 29 citations at TCU tailgates, records show.
"The first couple of games that I worked, with the number of violations that we had, it was definite that we needed more help out there," Travis said.
Although TABC agents have written 43 percent fewer tickets in 2007 than in 2004, all citations handed out at TCU came in 2007.
Darron Turner, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs who oversees student tailgates, said he did not know why TABC agents decided to attend tailgates this year and not in years past.
"(TABC) contacted the university one time to say they were coming with more people, and then they just kept that up," Turner said.
In the spring, Turner said university officials will meet with TABC agents to discuss plans for next year's student tailgate.
"We're taking some of their concerns and trying to figure out how to deal with those in the future so that students feel like they have a good place to be, and TABC feels that it's a safer environment," Turner said.
One TCU junior political science major, 20, who asked to remain anonymous, received a minor in possession of alcohol citation from TABC at a student tailgate and said the agent who issued her ticket was not helpful.
"(It was) my first time ever getting in trouble with the cops so I was trying to ask questions and figure out what I needed to do," she said. "(The TABC agent) did not offer me any information. I wasn't doing anything to attract attention to myself, and I thought it was unnecessary to be rude about it."
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